Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1880 — The Difference. [ARTICLE]

The Difference.

No doubt men and women differ essentially in character. It is shown in every experience of life. When, for instance;, a man is driven to the verge of despair, his natural impulse is to shut himself up alone in his chamber and tear his hair. If, on the other hand, the same sad fortune overtakes a woman, she at once takes a firm hold of her husband’s hair. It is this fact which leads some one to say that the smoothness of the husband’s crown is the sure criterion of the wife’s misfortunes. The Hartford Times, of Hartford, Ct., says of the Continental Life Insurance Company, of that city : “The sixteenth annual statement of the Continental Life is published in today’s Times. Sixteen years of experience in life underwriting covers nearly all the salient features of the business, and may well entitle the company to rank among the thoroughly-established companies of the country. “The Continental has in force 8,394 policies. They have issued and restored during the years 1,253, relatively a large number, and, of course, accompanied by a corresponding expense. The endowments maturing and paid during the year amounted to $205,615.23; this payment is greatly in excess of any which the company will hereafter be called upon to meet in any one year on existing policies; this, with the other disbursement aggregating on account of policy-holders $612,691.48, accounts for the large disbursements of the year. It will be observed that the company has receivedin interest and rents $127,696.57, a sum equal to nearly 6 per cent, on their gross assets, and in excess of the claims by death, $30,424.06. Since orgaxxization the company has disbursed, on account of policy-holders, $5,215,621.83, and now has assets of $2,797,323.28, a surplus on a 4-per-cent, basis of $268,750.34, while on a 4}-per-03nt. basis the surplus reaches $421.465.2a” The wholesale lager-beer brewers of New York have decided to advance the price of beer from $8 to $9 per barrel. The increase in the price of hops, malt, ice and other materials, the brewers say, has compelled this advance,